lonelyArtist – Leonie's Art Blog

💚🎂 Miku Birthday Festival 2025!🎉初音ミク生誕祭2025 💙

By leonieyue Posted on 1 September 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, progressupdate, Studies, Timelapse, Video Tagged with 1to1CatchUps, 3Dmodeling, ArtCareer, BeingMisunderstood, blunt, characterIllustration, conflictAvoidance, DonkeyKongBonanza, emotionalDistance, emotionallyMutual, empathy, fanart, figure drawing, figuredrawing, FriendshipReciprocity, game industry, games, games industry, gamesConference, gamesWeek, GCAP, hatsunemiku, Illustration, juggling, jugglingAllTheThings, LindsayEllisYoutube, loneliness, lonelyArtist, lowpoly, MelbourneInternationalGamesWeek, mikuBirthday, MikuBirthdayFestival, mikuday, minimalSocialInteractions, misunderstandings, mutuallyInterested, overstimulated, paintingStudy, photoStudy, portrait, portraitStudy, quiet, QuietObserver, social media, socialInepitude, SocialInteraction, socialmediaAndArtists, study, Timelapse, 初音ミク, 初音ミク生誕祭2025

❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ figure study & personal update

Pipo Snake 🐒 from Ape Escape 3!

By leonieyue Posted on 19 August 2025 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Sketches, Studies, StudyPost, Timelapse Tagged with AceAttorneyInvestigations, ApeEscape, ApeEscape3, communication, Cramps, fanart, Illustration, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lonelyArtist, mangaAddictionProcrastination, MilesEdgeworth, MilesEdgeworthInvestigations, monkey, personal update, PipoSnake, plushtoy, Windows11

❧ art timelapses for this little blog update!
❧ personal update

A dream I had recently

By leonieyue Posted on 29 July 2025 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection, SuperLeonieMode Tagged with alonewithcompany, behindInLife, demiplatonic, demiromantic, failure, Fallingbehind, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, feelingnotenough, foreverAloneMeme, HermitDragonLeonie, hermitLeonie, LeonieDoodles, LeonieDreams, loneliness, lonely, lonelyArtist, notenough, platonicRelationship, romance, romanticallyIntimate, singledom, SuperLeonieMode

little personal ramble

☺️ Kung fu Peach Part 3 [Princess Peach: Showtime fanart!]

By leonieyue Posted on 14 May 2024 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, progressupdate, Reflection Tagged with acceptance, AchyKnees, alonewithcompany, anxiety, anxietyFuture, anxious, artistCommunities, ArtistCompetition, ArtistDesperation, ArtistHustle, ArtistStruggle, AutismAdulthood, BarbieMovieThoughts, basicLifeSkills, belonging, burnout, CreativePressure, emotionalIntelligence, envious, envy, fanart, fantasyOfAdulthood, fearOfAloneInTheWorld, fears, fightFlightFreezeSurvivalMode, FriendshipMileage, gooutsideTouchGrass, grumpy, HaroldHalibutGame, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, hibernating, Illustration, insecurity, instagram, instagramstories, jealousy, KendrickTracks, KnivesOutGlassOnionMovie, leonieyue, loneliness, lonely, lonelyArtist, lowEnergy, LowPeriods, LowSocialEndurance, notvalued, overstimulated, Patriarchy, personalProjects, scapegoat, SelfConfidence, selfcritical, SelfPressure, social media, socialmediaAndArtists, socialMediaEngagement, socialmediaIsASlotMachine, socialmediaIsRigged, SocialMediaReach, SocialMediaVoid, socialZombie, StreamingAnxiety, streamingLeonie, StressEat, structureAndRoutine, strugglingForward, supportArtist, survivalArtistMode, TimeAnxiety, touchingGrassAdvice, unfairWorld

In this blog post:
❧ art process & subtitled timelapse!
❧ jealousy, dealing with discouragement, moving on from twitter (again), personal update & more

Drawing for my birthday

By leonieyue Posted on 27 June 2023 Posted in Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection Tagged with abandonment, anxiety, autisic, autism, autismfocus, autismLife, autistic, birthday, birthdayBreak, existential, existentialDread, existentialEmptiness, existing, fears, gratitude, hermitLeonie, hermitLife, Illustration, insecurity, LeonieBirthday, leonieyue, loneliness, lonelyArtist, overstimulated, overwhelm, reflection, reflective, rejection, rejectionSensitiveDysphoria, scapegoat, self compassion, self portrait, selfAcceptance, selfAwareness, selfCare, selfdoubt, SuperLeonieMode, TearsOfTheKingdomUpdate

Oh no

A mini reflective ramble & update

Warioware: Get It Together! / Eye of newt, Ashley casts a hex on you! Happy Spooky Halloween! 🎃

By leonieyue Posted on 31 October 2022 Posted in Fanart, Illustration, LeonieYue, PersonalUpdate, Reflection, Timelapse Tagged with Ashley, BlackCat, candy, cats, character illustration, characterIllustration, deadpan, digital art, externalRewards, fanart, food, grumpy, halloween, Illustration, instagram, instagramAlgorithm, learningJourney, leonieyue, lonely, lonelyArtist, nintendo, pickyEater, pomodoroMethod, productivity, productivityMethod, socialmedia, socialmediaAndArtists, socialmediaBoundaries, socialMediaEngagement, SocialMediaMetrics, solitary, spooky, spookySeason, Timelapse, timesheets, toxicProductivity, twitter, WarioWare, WarioWareGetItTogether, Witch, witchcraft, アシュリー

Happy SPOOKY season!
OooooOoo

In this week’s blog post:
the art timelapse,
reflecting about twitter, instagram & social media
and why I hate the pomodoro method, external rewards or timesheets for productivity :0

Sketch for the day 02 / Pointing [pixivSketch 28/05/2021] + ramble on managing social media (LeonieArtRambles podcast #6)

By leonieyue Posted on 29 May 2021 Posted in LeonieYue, Podcast, Reflection, Sketches, Studies Tagged with algorithms, ArtChallenge, ArtForTheDay, ArtistBrand, ArtistStandards, artPrompt, AttentionEconomy, careerDirection, careerthoughts, contentCreators, creative, creativeRut, creativity, creativityRut, drawing, DrawingChallenge, existential, FindingANiche, influencer, LeonieArtRambles, loneliness, lonelyArtist, MentalHealth, niche, perfectionism, PerformanceAnxiety, personal, Personality, personalupdate, photostudies, photoStudy, pixivSketch, pointing, portrait, prompt, reflection, rough, sketch, sketchbook, SketchForTheDay, sketchpost, socialmedia, SocialMediaAddiction, socialMediaEngagement, tired, twitterAlgorithm, uncertainty

It’s my second sketch prompt!
Also Leonie rambles about feelings, managing social media, not wanting to post some of her art to twitter, mental health, perfectionism, niches, uncertainty, constantly evolving boundaries and how few people seem to read her blog 🙁

There’s also a podcast version of this blog post!

Tag: lonelyArtist

💚🎂 Miku Birthday Festival 2025!🎉初音ミク生誕祭2025 💙

Pipo Snake 🐒 from Ape Escape 3!

A dream I had recently

☺️ Kung fu Peach Part 3 [Princess Peach: Showtime fanart!]

Drawing for my birthday

Warioware: Get It Together! / Eye of newt, Ashley casts a hex on you! Happy Spooky Halloween! 🎃

Sketch for the day 02 / Pointing [pixivSketch 28/05/2021] + ramble on managing social media (LeonieArtRambles podcast #6)